BARCELONA.- Torres-García. Crossroads brings together more than 80 works, mainly drawings, many of them unpublished, from the collection of Alejandra, Aurelio and Claudio Torres, as well as paintings and wooden constructions. The show explores the Uru…
Puerto Rico Painter Jose Torres Martino Dies at 94
By: Danica Coto, Associated Press
SAN JUAN (AP).- Jose Antonio Torres Martino, a Puerto Rican painter and writer who helped create and expand art and journalism institutions on the U.S. island, died Friday. He was 94. Torres died at Pavia Hospital in S…
Film Clips that Established the Reputation of American Artist Bruce Conner at Kunsthalle Zurich
ZURICH.- To an alternately rousing and poignant soundtrack, Indians chase a stagecoach and a tightrope walker balances on a wire above a city – these images feature in the found footage masterpiece A MOVIE (1958), an assemblage of newsreel images …
Interview with Beate Salje, Director of Berlin’s Museum of the Ancient Near East
BERLIN.- For everything we’ve ever wanted to know about the Museum of the Ancient Near East… Director Beate Salje has the answers. Who were the most important discoverers and excavators of the archaeological objects in your collection? Well for a sta…
Dutch Painter and Cobra Movement Co-Founder Corneille Dies
AMSTERDAM (REUTERS).- The Dutch painter Corneille, co-founder of the avant-garde Cobra movement, died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Dutch Cobra museum said on Sunday. The Dutch news agency NOS said he had died in France, where he lived and worked. Bo…
Bruce Museum Acquires Sculpture by Gaston Lachaise
GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum announces that it has acquired a major sculpture by the French/American artist Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935), one of the pioneers of modern art in the early decades of the last century. The work depicts Lincoln Kirstein (…
Schirn Kunsthalle Presents a 360-Degree Multi-Projection by Peter Kogler
FRANKFURT.- The Austrian multimedia artist Peter Kogler is one of the pioneers of computer-generated art. With his impressive 360-degree multi-projection on show at the Schirn from July 1 to September 12, 2010, the artist, whose work was included in tw…